Words similar to amusement

Example sentences for: amusement

How can you use “amusement” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

As anyone can tell, I am not a great fan of this form of amusement, and I thought they were original till I encountered the well-known A MAN, A PLAN, A CANAL—PANAMA.
[Correction, Aug. 29: Chatterbox misidentified both the amusement park and the ride where the Santa Clara, Calif., death occurred.
The Beijing Amusement Park (west side of Longtan Lake Park) is the old-fashioned standard, with a Ferris wheel, go-carts, and a looping roller coaster.
Humor is defined in the OED as that quality of action, speech, or writing which excites amusement and in MWIII as that expression of ideas in a happening, an action, a situation, or an expression of ideas which appeals to a sense of the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous.
Notice how Rowling structures the books in strict parallel centered around the school: First we get a few chapters of Harry at home with his awful muggle relatives, who lock him in the closet, starve him, and cower at the thought that he might perform magic (his frustration at not being allowed to is part of the amusement of this section).